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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2007-11-30 23:52:10 +1100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-28 14:55:17 -0800
commit23eb06de7d2d333a0f7ebba2da663e00c9c9483e (patch)
tree2958ebaacc8d8fd4b1a4d1966c31e6395b5b634a /include/linux
parent29e796fd4de54b8f5bc30d897611210ece4fd0f2 (diff)
sysctl: Remember the ctl_table we passed to register_sysctl_paths
By doing this we allow users of register_sysctl_paths that build and dynamically allocate their ctl_table to be simpler. This allows them to just remember the ctl_table_header returned from register_sysctl_paths from which they can now find the ctl_table array they need to free. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysctl.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h
index 3b6e2c9fbb2e..77de3bfd8744 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -1057,6 +1057,7 @@ struct ctl_table_header
struct list_head ctl_entry;
int used;
struct completion *unregistering;
+ struct ctl_table *ctl_table_arg;
};
/* struct ctl_path describes where in the hierarchy a table is added */